Latest Built on bitcoin Podcast Episodes
Defining Bitcoin Layers with Janusz - Co-Founder of Bitcoin Layers Research Group
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - June 28, 2024 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat's the future of Bitcoin scaling? In this episode, I talk with Janusz. The co-founder of Bitcoin Layers, a new research group and educational platform demystifying Bitcoin scaling protocols. We'll explore the concept of "Bitcoin Layers," why newer Bitcoin "L2s" are gaining attention despite...
BitSNARK, Grail Bridge & Bitcoin Rollups with Edan Yago - Core Contributor at Sovryn & Bitcoin OS
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - May 03, 2024 18:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode, Yago delves into the significance of the Bitcoin halving and its role in the consolidation of the cryptocurrency industry as Bitcoin begins to establish its dominance. He explores key technological advancements in Bitcoin, including Taproot and roll-ups, that position it as an op...
Samourai Wallet & Government Regulation with Orlando Cosme - Lawyer & Founder @ OC Advisory
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - May 01, 2024 14:45 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe US government shook up the crypto world when it was announced the Samourai Wallet devs were arrested and the domain seized. This opened up a ton of questions around regulation clarity, non-custodial tools, what is and isn't a money transmitter, and a bunch more topics. I brought on Orlando C...
Halving Reorgs, Runes Launch Failure, Samourai Wallet & Miner Centralization Cartel - Bitcoin Weekly Kickback
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 29, 2024 14:41 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis week we are back and talk about: - The hysteria around miners reorging the halving block and what actually happened - How did the Runes launch go and what happens next? - The Samourai Wallet situation and privacy - New data on miner centralization in Bitcoin As always, go follow us on Twitt...
Bitcoin Meets Solana with Simple Swaps | Sylvie Durach & Adam Borcany Co-Founders of Atomiq
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 26, 2024 16:47 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsCould Solana be a solid Bitcoin L2? Is there value in making it effortless to swap between BTC and Solana assets? The co-founders of Atomiq think so and have created an excellent product to eaisly swap between these assets with minimal risk. Sylvie Durach and Adam Borcany of the co-founders of At...
Who Controls Bitcoin, L2 <> Miner Incentives & UNCOMMON GOODS Game Theory
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 15, 2024 18:41 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this Bitcoin Weekly Kickback. Jake, Charlie, Donny, and Bob are joined by Matt Luongo to delve into: - The role of nodes versus miners in controlling Bitcoin. - The importance of fee revenue and NgU for different network users. - Designing Layer 2 incentives that align with Layer 1 prioritie...
Innovative Bitcoin Ordinal Lending with Robin Obermaier | Co-Founder of Liquidium
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 12, 2024 15:27 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsOrdinals have been huge for Bitcoin since launching early 2023. There is $100's of millions in value locked in these digital artifacts. Liquidium allows users to borrow BTC using their Ordinal as collateral and lenders can earn a BTC yield lending to borrowers. Robin is the CEO and Co-Founder of...
Bitcoin Weekly: Marathon Miner Fees, Custodial Lightning, BitVM & Is DeFi even worth it?
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 08, 2024 18:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAnother weekly chat of the latest in Bitcoin land. We have two special guests drop in this week. Philip from Arkadiko and Ian from Joltz Rewards, as well as the usual suspects Bob and Jacob. We Discuss: - Marathon Pools latest fee revenue coming way above average - Lighting + Coinbase - Custodia...
Comparing Runes & Taproot Assets with Linden Stark - CTO at Joltz Rewards
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - April 05, 2024 18:22 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFungible tokens and digital collectibles are hot topics on Bitcoin. This year we saw BRC20's and Ordinals take off. Now in 2024, there are two new standards being launched that aim to replace many of the shortcomings of these previous attempts. Linden Stark breaks down Taproot Assets and compares...
Mempool Sniping, MEV on Bitcoin, Private Mempools & Game of Blocks with Charlie Spears, Bob Bodily, Donny, Jacob
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - March 26, 2024 17:20 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this chat we discuss: - The growing problem of mempool sniping and what to do. - MEV on Bitcoin - Private Mempools - Game of Blocks A relaxed and wide ranging chat with Charlie Spears, Bob Bodily, Donny and Jacob Brown.
Anduro: A Bitcoin Sidechain Ecosystem with Jullian Duran - Product Lead at Marathon Digital Holdings
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - March 21, 2024 21:21 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe halving is right around the corner. Miners have to adapt to the revenue reduction and stay profitable. That's what we're talking about today with a new initiative Marathon, a large public Bitcoin miner, is starting called Anduro. Creating an ecosystem of sidechains with Bitcoin at the center....
Bitcoin Kickback Show: BRC20 "2.0" vs Runes, OPI Indexer Upgrades, How Runes Transfers Work
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - March 18, 2024 14:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLatest Bitcoin Kickback chat with the gang! We discuss: - Charlie Spears joins Blockspace Media - OPI Indexer Upgrades - BRC20 "2.0" vs Runes - How Runes Transfers Work - Long-Term Viability of Fungible Tokens on L1
Rootstock in Bitcoin Season 2 with Daniel Fogg - CEO of IOV Labs
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - March 01, 2024 18:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsRootstock is an OG of the Bitcoin L2 space. They were the earliest in the market to focus on merge mining, EVM compatibility, and Bitcoin DeFi. In this interview, Daniel talks about the growth and what is happening within the Rootstock ecosystem as we go into this 2024-2025 cycle. Curious where ...
Mercury Layer: Statechains Explained with Nicholas Gregory - Co-Founder of Mercury Layer
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - February 23, 2024 18:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsScaling Bitcoin is hard. Statechains are one potential way to scale it in a cheap and private way with minimal people to trust. Nicholas and his team at Mercury Layer are at the bleeding edge of developing Statechains. Follow Nicholas on Twitter: @gregory_nico Learn more about Mercury: https://...
Bitcoin Weekly Chat - Merlin Chain, Runes, Universal Bitcoin Symbol
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - February 19, 2024 19:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe usual suspects of Charlie, Donny, Bob and I discuss latest Bitcoin topics: - Merlin Chain. New Bitcoin L2. - Latest Runes Alpha - The Universal Bitcoin/Sats Symbol - EVMs as Bitcoin sidechains - Rootstock as the best EVM sidechain Follow Charlie: https://twitter.com/cbspears Follow Donny: ...
Non-Custodial Multi-Layer Swaps with Kilian - Co-Founder of Boltz Exchange
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - February 16, 2024 06:41 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMoving from chain to chain is a pain in the ass. Layer on custodian risk and this area is ripe for better solutions. That was Boltz is working on with their non-custodial cross-chain/multi-layer swaps from different Bitcoin focued chains. Kilian is the co-founder of Boltz. We discuss: - How he g...
BitVM meets ZK Rollups on Bitcoin with Orkun Kilic - Co-Founder of Citrea
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - February 07, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsOrkun is the co-founder of Citrea. A new Bitcoin L2 leveraging the latest ZK Rollup tech and BitVM to connect to the Bitcoin L1. Follow him on Twitter: @0x_orkun How best to scale Bitcoin is a hotly debated topic. One promising option is rollups, but to do them properly we need an a new OP_CODE....
Rollups on Bitcoin, BitVM Bridges and Finding Consensus with Bob, Charlie, & Donny
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - February 02, 2024 19:56 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this open-format chat. Charlie Spears, Donny, Bob Bodily, and myself discuss a few interesting topics including: - How close ZKrollups are to coming to Bitcoin - Building better bridges for L2s with BitVM - The Taproot Wizards BIPLand - Finding consensus for upgrades in 2024 You will definite...
Is The Seed Phrase Era Over? with Louise Ivan - CEO & Co-Founder of Ryder Wallet
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - November 17, 2023 19:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn 2023, managing your crypto wallet is still a big pain in the butt. Seed phrases are a single point of failure no normal person wants to use. Enter the Ryder One. They have rethought the experience of what a hardware wallet could be from first principles and created a completely new experience ...
E125: RGB Deep-Dive & Scaling Bitcoin with Hunter Beast - Director of Engineering at DIBA
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - October 14, 2023 17:36 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat is RGB? That is the question we are answering today. RGB is an off-chain solution that brings smart contracts to Bitcoin. It's a radically different approach to the global-state blockchains we're used to. Hunteris the Director of Engineering at DIBA. They are building a bleeding-edge wallet...
E:124 Bitcoin Startup Investing with Mike Jarmuz - Managing Partner at Lightning Ventures
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - October 02, 2023 16:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMike Jarmuz is the Managing Partner at Lightning Ventures. A Bitcoin-focused venture capital firm supporting early-stage founders. He has invested in over 1,500 startups to-date. We discuss: - Biggest mistakes he sees founders make when pitching - Anti-VC sentiment in Bitcoin - Biggest Opportuni...
E123: Understanding Babylon Bitcoin Staking with David Tse (Co-Founder of Babylon)
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - September 11, 2023 15:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings$500 billion in BTC is sitting mostly dormant. Proof-of-Stake chains need large amounts of capital to secure the network. David Tse is working to solve these two problems by allowing you to stake Bitcoin and secure a myriad of other blockchains. This new project is called Babylon. Check out the ...
E122: Decoding the Lightning Network with Jesse Shrader - CEO & Co-Founder of Amboss
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - August 21, 2023 15:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Lightning Network is heralded as the future of payments. However, several aspects of the network still require refinement. Amboss is one company doing that work. Jesse and his team are creating tools to make it more efficient to run a Lightning node and have access to the best data to make in...
E121: Educating The Next 10k Bitcoin Developers with Lisa Neigut - Co-Founder of Base58 & BTC++
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - August 04, 2023 22:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLisa Neigut wears many hats. Lightning Protocol Engineer, Bitcoin Educator, and developer conference organizer just to name a few. She is the co-founder of Base58, an education platform focused on teaching beginner-to-advanced courses on different parts of Bitcoin. As well as organizing multiple...
E120: Building Sound Finance for Sound Money with Matthew Black - Co-Founder & CTO of Atomic Finance
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - July 28, 2023 14:52 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMatthew Black is building non-custodial Bitcoin financial tools. He started on the otherside side of crypto before getting disenchanted with how things were being built and making the jump to Bitcoin. Since then, him and his team have been hard at work on Atomic Finance and recently launched thei...
E119: Sovereign Stablecoins & The Bitcoin Economy - Edan Yago Interview - Core Contributor @ Sovryn
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - July 21, 2023 14:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsEdan Yago is a core contributor to Sovryn. A DeFi protocol building financial tools for Bitcoin on the Rootstock sidechain. In this episode, we discuss: - The role of money - Practical ways to onboard new Bitcoiners - Satoshi's Hierarchy of Needs - Bitcoin-Only mindset and its flaws - Bitcoin-ba...
E118: 5 Insights from 1 Year in Bitcoin VC - Jacob Brown
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - July 14, 2023 20:44 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIts been just over a year since I switched careers entirely and got into the VC space with an analyst position a the Bitcoin Frontier Fund. Here are 5 things I learned that I was completely unaware of before I started.
E117: Understanding Fedimint & Federations with Kody Low - Head of Support at Fedi
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - June 10, 2023 20:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFedi is building community-empowering tech powered by Fedimint. An open-source protocol to custody and transact Bitcoin within a community (federation). This is a wide-ranging conversation with Kody Low who is the head of developer & product support at Fedi. We touch on his experience as a new Bi...
E116: Ordinals, BRC20's, & Rollups Explained with Bob Bodily - CEO & Co-Founder of Bioniq
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - June 02, 2023 23:19 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsA tsunami of innovation has crashed over Bitcoin in the past few months thanks to Ordinals. It's hard to keep up with the latest. Bob Bodily breaks down ordinals, inscriptions, BRC20s, rollups, and more. He and his team are also building Bioniq, which they say will be the fastest Ordinals marketp...
E115: Building the Bitcoin Economy with Muneeb Ali - Co-Creator of Stacks
Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown - May 12, 2023 15:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMuneeb needs no introduction. He is an OG in the Bitcoin space and has been building in the space for over a decade. He co-created the Stacks blockchain with Ryan Shea and currently is the CEO of Trust Machines which is building the largest ecosystem of applications focused on making Bitcoin more...
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